Re: I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

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On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 10:55:55PM +0100, wempwer@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 12:24:04PM -0900, Roger wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:27:52PM +0100, wempwer@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:16:28PM +0200, D.T.au wrote:
> > >> hello,
> > >> 
> > >> most of the examples you are giving are not about alsa but about other sound architectures that build on top of that, and software.
> > >> i think you might want to do some reading, e.g. here:
> > >> http://tuxradar.com/content/how-it-works-linux-audio-explained
> > >> maybe you'll notice that the writer of this article is critical, like you, but not complaining.
> > >> i really don't understand the complaining tone you are using;
> > >> there's nothing wrong with opening a config file and editing a few settings.
> > >> btw, if you have 2 soundcards you can also set the default permanently, so it becomes hw:0,0 again.
> > >
> > >Nope. There is something wrong if your system doesn't work out of the
> > >box because something is broken by someone in some place.
> > 
> > True.  But your statement is sort of like saying the wheel is engineered 
> > incorrectly, when the wheel merrily missing lug nuts.
> > 
> > (Likely your distribution flavor has a bug, requiring fixing.  Quite common, 
> > especially with Debian. ;-)
> >
> 
> Maybe, but if I have 2 soundcards in my system - the correct one (not
> HDMI, I don't know how to call it) and HDMI card and ALSA treats the
> latter as the default card, what distribution problem can lead to
> that? This situation happened on Slackware. 

Just to add, Slackware philosophy is to use vanilla packages, that
means they don't tinker with the way ALSA works. I would suspect this
kind of situation you are talking about on Debian or Ubuntu but not
here.

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